Join Us for a Weekend of Growth, Fun & Deep Relaxation! Bring your yoga mat, blocks, yoga belts, blankets and sandbags—and get ready to breathe, move, and relax!
When: November 1-2, 2025
Days: Saturday & Sunday
Regular Registration by October 25, 2025: Venmo Kari @Kari-Tomashik-1, pay online below, or send check by mail. Email or text Kari if you plan to attend and how many sessions.
Regular Registration: $50.00 each session. $200.00 all four sessions.
Dharma Registration after October 25, 2025: Venmo Kari @Kari-Tomashik-1, pay online below, or send check by mail. Email or text Kari if you plan to attend and how many sessions.
Dharma Registration: $55.00 each session. $220.00 all four sessions
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Location: In-Person at The Center for Physical Arts, 247 West Nine Mile Road, Ferndale, MI 48220
Parking: Parking available in parking structure across the street. Feel free to drop off yoga props at The Center for Physical Arts back door then park. Parking is free on Sundays.
Yoga Lessons Available: Contact Kari to schedule a yoga lesson.
Why You’ll Love This Weekend Workshop
All Levels Welcome: Whether you’re a first-timer or a seasoned yogi, these sessions are designed for everyone.
Pranayama, Asanas & Restorative Magic: Each class features breath work, active poses, and relaxing restorative poses.
Transformational Work: Expert feedback that helps you take your practice to the next level.
Fun & Supportive Atmosphere: You’ll be surrounded by a welcoming and supportive yoga community where everyone’s here to grow, have fun, and feel amazing.
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Saturday Yoga Sessions – November 1, 2025
Inspiration:
“The practice of asanas lubricates the joints and increases mobility, bringing awareness to each muscle, joint, and organ. Different combinations of asanas improve the range of movement for each muscle and joint, helping align the left and right sides of the body.” — B.K.S. Iyengar
Saturday, 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Session A
Awaken the Psoas for Strong Abs and a Healthy Back
This yoga session is designed to gently release tension in the psoas and abdominal muscles while building strength in the psoas and deep abdominal muscles.
Lengthening and strengthening the psoas and abdominal muscles are crucial for improving core stability, posture, athletic performance, and overall well-being. The psoas and abdominal muscles are a crucial team, with the psoas connecting your torso to your legs, and the deep abdominals supporting your spine. This balance is key to proper movement and avoiding chronic pain.
The psoas major is a deep core muscle, sometimes called the “muscle of the soul”. It connects the lumbar spine (lower back) to the femur (thigh bone) and plays a crucial role in hip flexion, posture, and walking. It also has a link to our nervous system and can tighten in response to stress.
The abdominal muscles are the superficial and deep layers of muscles that wrap around your torso. They stabilize the spine and pelvis, support the internal organs, and assist in breathing.
Benefits:
Transformational Work:
Unlock your body’s potential with guided feedback, creating space for energy flow and relaxation.
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Saturday, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Session B
Balancing Engagement & Release: Find Relief for Tight Hamstrings & Quads
Join us for a healing yoga practice designed to release tightness and tension in your hamstrings and quadriceps, so your muscles feel supple, strong, and flexible. We will integrate breath awareness and proper alignment with muscle mechanics to help you safely and effectively increase flexibility and improve mobility in your hips and legs (hamstrings and quads). Expect to leave feeling more open, grounded, and at ease.
Benefits include:
Transformational Work:
Awaken your inner strength and flexibility through guided feedback, helping you evolve in both body and mind.
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Sunday Yoga Sessions – November 2, 2025
Inspiration:
“Asanas make your body supple and bring alertness to your mind, while soothing your nerves and glands, relaxing your brain, and maintaining physical, physiological, and emotional balance.” — B.K.S. Iyengar
Sunday, 9:00 am – 11:00 am | Session C
The Art of Practice
Description: The Art of Practice is a yoga journey of self-discovery and personal transformation that requires discipline, effort, and a commitment to being present in the moment. Mindful movement and yoga flow cultivates inner peace, balance, and self-awareness, so you can connect with your true essence.
This class includes meditation, breathing, chanting, and body awareness.
Challenge yourself
Start your practice by challenging yourself with difficult movements, and look for new challenges each day.
Be present
Let go of the past and the future, and focus on your practice in the moment.
Embrace the journey
The art of yoga practice is about accepting the process of self-discovery, not about achieving perfection in poses.
Benefits:
Transformational Work:
Feel the positive energy flow, and receive expert feedback to enhance your body’s foundation and alignment.
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Sunday, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Session D
Boost Your Immune System
This holistic and restorative yoga session combines physical postures, breathing, and relaxation to enhance the bodies natural defenses. By reducing stress, minimizing inflammation, and improving circulation, yoga helps the immune system function more effectively.
Yoga’s focus on mindfulness and deep breathing activates the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting a state of calm and lowering cortisol levels. Yoga poses stimulate blood flow and create movement in the lymphatic system, which is crucial for flushing toxins and moving immune cells throughout the body. Yoga can also help relax the body and mind, combating insomnia and improving sleep quality, which is essential for a robust immune system.
Benefits:
Transformational Work:
Transform your body and mindset through expert feedback that enhances both physical and emotional well-being.
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Healing Injury? For those who have a history of injury or trauma and notice that the effects of the minor/major injuries are beginning to interfere with your everyday lives, please note that all of the yoga classes are naturally healing.
Each yoga class is designed to help release stored pain, anxiety, stress, or tension you may be experiencing so that vital, healing energy – prana – can move freely through the entire body. When vital energy is flowing freely (not obstructed), you experience positive emotions, revitalized energy, mental clarity, lightness, pain relief, and an overall sense of well-being.
ALL ARE WELCOME
Whether you have attended any of my yoga classes or workshops in the past or not, you are welcome to attend any or all of these classes.
SKILL LEVEL
Beginner – with at least 6 months of yoga experience
Intermediate
Advanced
PROPS
One yoga mat, necessary
One or two yoga blocks, necessary
Two firm bolsters or two firm blankets
One yoga belt
One or Two sandbags, if you have
Dharma wheel, if you have
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